From: Zak Rogoff Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:09:28 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Linking up program and speakers, and fixing a typo in Bradley Kuhn's bio. X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b43964cbaa1f126eb205eec6fb59c8f94097022;p=libreplanet-static.git Linking up program and speakers, and fixing a typo in Bradley Kuhn's bio. --- diff --git a/2015/program/index.html b/2015/program/index.html index 6b89df32..46361ce2 100755 --- a/2015/program/index.html +++ b/2015/program/index.html @@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ Contents

Arvados: a free software platform for big data science

- Brett Smith, Ward Vandewege + Brett Smith, Ward Vandewege

Large-scale scientific computing work often runs on clusters with petabytes of attached storage and specialized networking. Arvados is a free software platform to store and analyze large data sets, emphasizing reproducibility and compatibility across deployments. It's licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, with SDKs under the Apache License 2.0. This talk will provide a technical introduction to Arvados, describe how research projects like the Personal Genome Project have used it, and suggest other applications.

Attribution revolution -- turning copyright upside-down

- Jonas Öberg + Jonas Öberg

Reusing works licensed under free licenses seems pretty simple, but it can often be quite time consuming. One image or a few lines of source code might be okay, but keeping track of the license and attribution of a thousand different pieces, or when quoting from massive data sets such as Wikipedia? Whoah! Don’t we have computers to do that for us!? We do, but there’s no widespread support for including licensing or author information when sharing or reusing digital works. This session will discuss how this should work in a free knowledge environment, and could it be that many problems regarding copyright and "piracy" in our digital society could be solved with free software?

In order to relate effectively to the digital works we see online, attribution (who made or built something) matters. Proper attribution is the start of being able to explore digital works online in their right context. This talk will focus on the philosophical background of why attribution matters, the benefits that free software can bring to the way we work with pieces of art (lolcats and Shakespeare alike), and where we're heading in the future.

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Browse in privacy and freedom with GNU IceCat

- Ruben Rodriguez Perez + Ruben Rodriguez Perez

We will take a look into how most browsers leave you defenseless against attacks on your privacy and freedom -- including remote code execution, fingerprinting, and non-free plugins/add-ons -- and how GNU IceCat can protect you.

Distributions and the free "cloud"

- Stefano Zacchiroli + Stefano Zacchiroli

What role have Free Software distributions played in making free software as popular as it is today? And what has that to do with the so-called "cloud" that seems to be slowly neutralizing all of the achievements made by free software over the past 30 years? How do free software distributions need to evolve in order to become powerful allies in the quest for a free "cloud," one in which users are empowered to the level of control they wish for over their own computing, without having to turn into full fledged DevOps?

Dr. Hyde and Mr. Jekyll: advocating for free software in nonfree academic contexts

- ginger coons + ginger coons

What if the classic horror trope of the good doctor who becomes a monster at night were reversed? Instead of the good Dr. Jekyll transforming into the rampaging Mr. Hyde, advocates of free who work in nonfree environments can feel as if they only get to put on their altruistic persona at night. For academics advocating free software and free culture in particular, libre ethics are often at odds with both administrative structures and expected teaching outcomes. This session explores the struggles of advocating free in both research and teaching.

Engaging Nepali kids with free software

- Martin Dluhoš + Martin Dluhoš

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is an educational project whose goal is to provide resources to children around the world to be able to learn in a self-directed manner using an inexpensive laptop. Earlier this year, I spent six months in Nepal volunteering for the local educational non-profit OLE Nepal, which employs OLPC laptops to provide better educational opportunities in schools that lack resources and governmental support. Kids from elementary schools chosen for the laptop program get to learn with interactive activities that OLE designed based on Nepali curricula.

During my stay, I had a few chances to visit some of these schools and witness XOs (OLPC laptops running the free operating system Sugar) in action in the classroom. I will share my observations about the number of ways in which the laptop program is making a meaningful impact on Nepali children's learning. I have seen that free software is not restricted to the West anymore, but is present even in some of the most remote places of the world. Through sharing my experience, I am hoping to expose participants of the conference to a new context in which free software is being encountered by people who have never used a computer before.

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Federation and GNU

- Christopher Webber + Christopher Webber

The effort to re-decentralize the web has been under way for a number of years, but what's really happening under the hood? Various projects like Diaspora, GNU Social, GNU MediaGoblin, Friendica Red, and Pump.IO all exist, but not all these projects can talk to each other. How can we fix that? A demo of PyPump will be given, as well as a rundown on the progress of the W3C Social Working Group.

Fighting surveillance with a free, distributed, and federated net

- Frank Karlitschek + Frank Karlitschek

The Internet and the World Wide Web were originally designed as distributed and federated networks. In the last few years we've seen a trend to more centralized services like Facebook, Google, Dropbox and others, making censorship, surveillance and espionage very easy.

The ownCloud community is currently using free software to build a fully federated and distributed network, which makes it easier to guarantee people's basic rights for people to control over their own data (as described in the User Data Manifesto at https://userdatamanifesto.org). Anyone can run an ownCloud server at home or somewhere on the Internet and collaborate and share with everyone else.

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Will it blend?

- Bassam Kurdali + Bassam Kurdali

A whirlwind introduction to working with Blender, the free (as in freedom) 3D animation suite. We'll do fun introductory animation with flowers, and also take a look at the Python API for the more technically minded.

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Miriyam Aouragh, Westminster University

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Miriyam Aouragh, Westminster University

Miriyam Aouragh is an activist and anthropologist currently holding a Leverhulme fellowship at Communication and Media Research Institute at Westminster University, UK.

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Molly de Blanc, MollyGive

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Molly de Blanc, MollyGive

Molly de Blanc lives in Somerville, MA, works in open education, and could probably code her way out of a paper bag.

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Bradley Kuhn, Software Freedom Conservancy

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f Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various free software projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As the FSF's executive director from 2001 to 2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its associate member program, and invented the Affero GPL. From 2005-2010, Kuhn worked as the policy analyst and technology director of the Software Freedom Law Center. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in computer science from Loyola University in Maryland, and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Cincinnati. His Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of free software languages. Kuhn has a blog at http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/ , a microblog at http://identi.ca/bkuhn/, and co-hosts the audcast Free as in Freedom at http://faif.us/.

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Bradley M. Kuhn is the President and Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various free software projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As the FSF's executive director from 2001 to 2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its associate member program, and invented the Affero GPL. From 2005-2010, Kuhn worked as the policy analyst and technology director of the Software Freedom Law Center. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in computer science from Loyola University in Maryland, and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Cincinnati. His Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of free software languages. Kuhn has a blog at http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/ , a microblog at http://identi.ca/bkuhn/, and co-hosts the audcast Free as in Freedom at http://faif.us/.